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title: The warm tears moistened the earth, and the rose-tree sprouted up at… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The warm tears moistened the earth, and the rose-tree sprouted up at once, as blooming as when it had sunk; and Gerda embraced it and kissed the roses, and thought of the beautiful roses at home, and, with them, of little Kay. Who acts: warm tears, Gerda. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 58

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The warm tears moistened the earth, and the rose-tree sprouted up at once, as blooming as when it had sunk; and Gerda embraced it and kissed the roses, and thought of the beautiful roses at home, and, with them, of little Kay.

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**Who acts:** warm tears, Gerda · **What happens:** moisten, sprout up, bloom, sink, embrace, kiss · **To what, where:** earth, rose tree, roses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warm tears, Gerda), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:172:58
# text = The warm tears moistened the earth, and the rose-tree sprouted up at once, as blooming as when it had sunk; and Gerda embraced it and kissed the roses, and thought of the beautiful roses at home, and, with them, of little Kay.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	moistened	moisten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	sprouted	sprout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	blooming	bloom	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sunk	sink	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	Gerda	Gerda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	Kay	Kay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **moisten** | participle | the warm tears and the rose tree *not said here* | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent earth=Patient |
| 2 | **sprout up** | participle |  | the rose tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 3 | **bloom** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sink** | past · perfect · passive |  | earth |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **embrace** | past | Gerda | earth |  |  |  | of little Kay | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **kiss** | past | Gerda *not said here* | the roses |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rose=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Gerda *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the beautiful roses at home | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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